Fernando Alonso to retire from Formula 1 at end of season
AP | August 14, 2018 21:34 ISTFernando Alonso will leave Formula One at the end of the season and potentially move to IndyCar in the United States.
Fernando Alonso will leave Formula One at the end of the season and potentially move to IndyCar in the United States.
The Australian driver, who has won seven races since joining Red Bull in 2014, has agreed to a two-year deal with Renault.
Hamilton was untroubled as he secured a second straight win, fifth of the season and 67th overall.
Hamilton again showed he is untouchable in the rain, producing a brilliant last lap to take pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Vettel was faster than Red Bull drivers Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo.
Vettel should have been the one in the ascendancy, but his clumsy crash while leading the rain-soaked German GP last Sunday cost him the race and gifted victory to Hamilton.
Hamilton's love of fighting from the back is somewhat ironic, considering he is F1's record holder with 76 pole positions — eight more than Michael Schumacher.
Leading both the drivers' and constructors' championships before the race, Vettel and Ferrari are now behind in both.
The German's mishap opened the door wide open for Hamilton, who is 17 points clear of Vettel after trailing by eight beforehand.
Already trailing Vettel by eight points in the title race, Hamilton starts Sunday's race from 14th place after a hydraulic failure.
The 20-year-old Dutch driver clocked 1 minute, 13.085 seconds to eclipse veteran Kimi Raikkonen's time of 1:13.78 from 2004.
Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo, who has won twice this season, will start Sunday's race at Hockenheim from the back of the grid.
With his previous contract set to expire at the end of this year, Lewis Hamilton penned a new agreement until 2020 with Mercedes.
Bottas moved from Williams on a one-year deal as an emergency replacement for German driver Nico Rosberg, who stunned Mercedes — and all of F1 — by retiring days after winning the 2016 title.
Four-time world champion Lewis Hamilton penned a new deal with Mercedes until 2020, when the current set of F1 regulations end.
At the midway point of the Formula One season, Sebastian Vettel holds only an eight-point lead over rival Lewis Hamilton in an intriguing title contest.
Hamilton managed to fight his way back to finish second after a Ferrari-Mercedes duel developed with Valtteri Bottas leading until Vettel hit the front again with five laps to go.
Vettel, who leads Hamilton by one point going into the 10th of 21 races, was faster than Hamilton until the British driver went again to finish 0.044 seconds ahead.
Hamilton, who is going for a fifth straight victory and a record sixth overall in his home Formula One race, clocked the best lap time at 0.367 seconds faster than Bottas.
Lewis Hamilton is bidding to win the British Grand Prix on Sunday for what would be an outright record sixth time at his home race.
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